This Creature Went Extinct 136,000 Years Ago – But Then Evolution Repeated Itself

Image: David Stanley / CC BY 2.0

On that note, let’s redirect our focus to the Aldabra rail bird. In our lifetime, the species has existed on the Aldabra Atoll. But in May 2019, two academics revealed a shocking piece of information about the bird’s strange evolutionary past. And they published it in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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